Interesting to compare the determined identification of the leaker in this case against the long tradition of certain tabloid news bosses paying police officers for information. Allowing that the arrangement also accommodated publishing false information to discredit people, often victims, it was all conspicuously illegal. But no earnest effort was ever made by the police leadership to identify those bent cops, or get stuck in to the offending news publishers. Wonder why.
Rebekah Brooks appearance before the Commons Media Committee along with Jas. Murdoch exposed that she seemed not to even remember that bungs to cops were actually criminal offences.